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How Giving Away Comic Books Is a Great Way to Sell Comic Books

The annual event known as Free Comic Book Day is held the first Saturday in May every year—May 5 in 2012. It’s a day when comic book shops all over North America give away free comics to each and every customer. It’s also a huge day for selling comic books.

Q&A: ‘The Adventures of Unemployed Man’ Author Erich Origen

If you ever wanted to make sense of the bubble-riding, downsizing, outsourcing, debt-inducing, credit-crazy, middle-class-destroying era we’ve all just lived through—and in many ways, which we all continue to live in—a comic book will do the job as good as any. Hilarious, clever, very relevant, and remarkably insightful and thought-provoking, “The Adventures of Unemployed Man” [...]

Shout Out: ‘How to Literally Mortgage Your Children’s Future’

Tom Tomorrow envisions a new banking industry product that allows parents to get cash advances based on the estimated future earnings of their offspring.

Apparently, I Have Personal Finance Super Powers

Exactly what powers do I have? That’s not really clear just yet. But so far, they involve me doing something I’m pretty good at: sitting on the couch.